** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Cosimo]

Service panel jettison:

 

[VaderDSL]

Awesome, camera streaming direct to tracking/telemetry station, relayed to internet, watching a spacecraft orbiting in near real time. As said, awesome.

 

[Cosimo]

If you missed it, this is what happens now:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=27300544#post27300544

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=27300560#post27300560

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

Another view of launch:

 

[Cosimo]

Spectacular image from United Launch Alliance:

 

[Khrest]

Second burn happening now. Watching the Apogee increase is just like playing Kerbal!

 

[VaderDSL]

^ I have a stupid question, can't visualise in my head. How is Apogee increasing whilst lowering Perigee?

Are they simply burning Radial out (sort of perpendicular to prograde) in order to raise Apogee, but to lower Perigee to below 0m they would have to lower their orbital velocity as well?

Or am I so far off the mark it's embarrassing?

 

[Khrest]

I've experienced it in Kerbal, but couldn't tell you the why or the math. I'm sure we have a rocket scientist here somewhere who can help!

 

[Khrest]

I have no idea how they can take an image like the one above and expose correctly for both the dark rocket and the bright flames, unless they've already had time to HDR it in photoshop!

 

[Combat squirrel]

Earth is getting small in the window now !!

 

[Blinkz]

Entry interface imminent!

 

[Cosimo]

Just made it back in time.

 

[VaderDSL]

Awesome footage of the descent/parachutes.

 

[Cosimo]

Down and stable!

 

[Blinkz]

Great job Nasa, a pretty much perfect mission (forgetting the aborts yesterday )

 

[Cosimo]

Well done NASA and everyone involved in the mission.

 

[NeilF]

Spectacular image from United Launch Alliance:

Looks like Kerbal Space Program!

 

[Cosimo]

Post launch briefing:

 

[Cosimo]

Rosetta says hello:

This four image mosaic comprises images taken with Rosetta’s NAVCAM on 2 December from a distance of 30.1 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0